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Close to Home Discovery Health version (VHS) |
Email This Page | | Filmmaker: Alexandra Dickson and Vanessa Roth |
As Seen On: Discovery Health Channel |
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Price listed includes Public Performance License. |
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This version, as seen on the Discovery Health Channel, differs from the original theatrical release at the Sundance Film Festival. It is now hosted by David Schwimmer and narrated by Robin Quivers, and has been re-edited for television broadcast with extended sequences. This version also contains updated statistics on child abuse. This expanded program ends with a roundtable discussion of the film by its participants as well as the filmmakers. (We recommend that educators purchase this version.) It is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sex abuse crimes in the United States and that 90 percent of the abusers are people children know, love or trust. Close to Home takes an unprecedented look at this crime and the complexities surrounding its disclosure when the offenders are trusted community members. Weaving together intimate interviews of abuse victims and videotaped forensic testimony, Close to Home contrasts five personal accounts of child sex abuse with the chilling statements of convicted sex offenders.
Close to Home was produced by the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children, Established in 1997 by former U.S. Olympian and baseball player Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals). Click here to go to the homepage of the theatrical release.
Click here for more information about Close to Home and child sexual abuse on the Discovery Health Channel .
Click here for more information about the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children. Captioned copies available for the hearing impaired. Contact us for details.
Running time: 94 min., Year released: 2002
Close captioned?: Y, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-660-2
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 10th and up
Reviews: "A wrenching film, as important as it is difficult to watch, that deals with the devastation of childhood sexual abuse. The documentary consists of interviews with adult survivors of abuse, children who are just now confronting their experience and, most chilling, convicted offenders talking about their strategies in group therapy sessions. As one of them explains, `The predator isn`t the guy in the bushes, picking up kids in the schoolyard. Most child molesters are people in your lives.` "
--Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times
"This film is powerful and, at times, overwhelming. My gratitude and admiration go out to the brave survivors who chose to participate in our film. Their honesty and forthrightness will help spread the message that child sexual abuse must stop and we all must do our part to make this topic no longer taboo."
--Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals
"Close To Home has a powerful cumulative impact, and likely will enjoy a long afterlife in educational and therapeutic venues."
--Variety
"Close To Home is an outstanding example of the important contribution that a documentary can make toward increasing public awareness of the impact of interpersonal violence on the health of children."
--Robert Geffner, Ph.D
Founder and President, Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute
"..a marvelous educational tool. I strongly endorse Close To Home as an important contribution to the growing resources that can assist a wide variety of audiences in understanding sexual abuse."
--Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D.
Author and Editor, The Dissociative Child
"..an extraordinary documentation of the pain, horror and extreme complexity of child sexual abuse."
--Paul Jay Fink, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine and past President, American Psychiatric Association
Other Credits: Produced and Directed by Vanessa Roth and Alexandra Dickson
Music Score Composed by Peter Harris
"Dreamland" written, produced and performed by Bruce Hornsby
Produced by the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children and Big Year Productions, Inc. |
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